I like driving fast on dirt roads. The occasional gasp from my wife when I kick the rear end loose is like music to my ears. But with the fiberglass fenders (and no fender liner) I get tired of hearing all the rocks dinging off my doors and rocker panels (this old steel doesn't need help with...

I'm one of those guys who will wait for my bumpers to get ripped off before replacing them with something beefier. So, in the mean time I wanted to add an anchor/recovery point to the rear of my 2000 Taco. There are two steel loops up front but nothing really in the back with the stock setup...

I just tried this to disable the seat belt warning bell on my Tacoma, and it worked. This should work on '08 and '09 Tacomas. Not positive on the other years.
1) Turn the Car 'ON', but do not start the engine (Leave your foot off the brake). Cycle your trip reset knob until it reads ODO. Turn...

I took a look at the spare tire as it was mounted and the space between the tire and brackets. I found some spare plate iron I had and cut some sections to extend the brackets far enough to allow the 33" to fit snugly. Took the brackets down and added the plates and put them back on. Had the 33"...

the spare tire winch mod
this post has been edited to show thumbnails of all the work involved. the thumbnals are links to pics in the mebers rigs section. click om them and you can see them full size there.
Thanks to Chris "wgsa84" for posting this on his site with downloadable pics version...